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They used a lot of guitars, they were all fantastically talented singers and musicians and most everyone in the audience knew the words to their songs. "Hotel California is six minutes, the intro is a minute long, it stops in the middle with no drums, and you've got a two-minute guitar solo at the end. So I said, 'Don, I don't think we can do that.' One accurate version. Neither guitar-slinger disappointed, the best testimony to this being the first album with both on it: 1976’s Hotel California, one of the best and best-selling albums of all time. He had a couple verses of lyrics and he had verse music. Hotel California is the band's most enduring song, still played more than 200 times a month on UK radio, and covered by artists as diverse as The Gipsy Kings, The Killers and Frank Ocean. “They were making Hotel California and Joe Walsh was writing this song,” he said. Joe Walsh website. Hotel California - Two Guitar Version guitar tab by The Eagles with free online tab player. bosstone, Nov 26, 2007. The overall set up for the song was kinda complicated but since you’ve asked only for Joe Walsh’s set up it was a 1977 Fender Telecaster running into a ’59 Fender Narrow Panel Tweed Deluxe amp. Then, in ’75, the already well-known Joe Walsh was brought into the band, for the same reason: rock! [Play] I'm sequentially learning and playing my way through Guitar World magazine's top 100 solos of all time. It's the absolute wrong format for a single. Joe Walsh's Guitar amp in Hotel California Discussion in 'Amps and Cabs' started by RhoadsRocks82, Nov 26, 2007. Don Felder & Joe Walsh / The Eagles, with the solo to Hotel California. In the Eagles some of his most characteristic solos like Hotel California are also played with a Fender Telecaster, leaving Don Felder with the humbucker tone of the Les Paul, but there are many guitars that he used and continued using with the Los Angeles band like for example the Rickenbacker 230 that he used for the slide parts.
Eagles - Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit, with Deacon Frey and Vince Gill – are bringing their recent, highly acclaimed “Hotel California” performances on tour in 2020 with concerts in Atlanta, New York, Dallas, Houston, San Francisco and Los Angeles. “And he didn’t quite have a title for it yet.